This assessment rubric addresses outcomes for NSW Early Stage One mathematics volume content. Devise teaching activities to address the volume content and assess students from work samples or observations of student engagement during these activities. Alternatively, devise assessment tasks which show aptitude for the content. Record student achievement on the assessment rubric. Keep a copy of the volume assessment rubric in student’s mathematics journals/workbooks or in an assessment folder

This resource contains a PDF of the 'I can' statements for the counting aspect of the NSW Numeracy Continuum-Levels 0-5. Put a copy of the 'I can' statements in each student's mathematics journal to keep a record of when they achieve markers and levels. Alternatively, keep a copy for each student in an assessment folder.

This assessment rubric addresses outcomes for NSW Early Stage One mathematics capacity content. It provides a brief teacher summary of the main ideas when teaching capacity. Devise teaching activities to address the capacity content and assess students from work samples or observations of student engagement in these activities. Alternatively, devise assessment tasks which show aptitude for the content. Record student achievement on the assessment rubric. Keep a copy of the capacity assessment rubric in student’s mathematics journals/workbooks or in an assessment folder.

This resource contains nine worksheets exploring the numbers 21 through to 30. It covers skills such as; counting aloud, counting concrete objects, before and after numbers, handwriting, representing numbers on a ten frame and ordinal numbers. It can be used as an independent activity after whole class instruction or as a consolidation activity during numeracy groups.

An addition game or activity for early Kindergarten. Print and place in a plastic folder so it can be reused in mathematics groups. Alternatively the print out can be used as an individual student worksheet. The activity contains instructions for maths group parent helpers. It also contains the numbers to 12 so students can refer to and copy correctly.

This resource is a student assessment record sheet for the ‘Counting Homework Cards’ by the same author. Use the assessment record sheet to record the dates when students achieve each level. Teachers can keep a copy of the record sheet that they can transfer to PLAN. Another copy can remain in the student’s homework folder to keep parents informed and motivated about their child’s progress through the counting levels of the Numeracy Continuum.

A Smart Notebook file to teach the days of the week to kindergarten students. The learning sequence includes links to 'days of the week' songs. It asks students to read and sequence the days of the week and group them into weekdays and weekend days. It also gets students to use word consciousness to break apart and reconstruct the days of the week at a word level. Finally it gets students to brainstorm what they do on each day using pictures and words.

This 27-page Smart Notebook supports the teaching of numerals 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, and 9. Each numeral contains three slides. The first slide introduces the number using an image of a hand representing the number with fingers. Counters and a 5 or 10 frame provide another representation of the number. The second slide contains a jingle to describe how to form the numeral. Slide three provides an opportunity for modelled practice forming the numeral.

This PowerPoint presentation is in the form of an early readers simple text. It introduces the topic of 3D space specifically cones, cubes, cylinder and spheres. It has a repetitive structure and contains the high frequency words look, like, what, and am . Teachers can use it as a guided reading text.

This resource is a sequential series of 8 levelled homework cards that address Aspect 1 of the NSW Numeracy Continuum. It contains; -one card for numerals 1-5, -four cards for 1-10, differing on the student’s ability with before and after numbers, -one card for numbers 1-20, -one card for numbers 1-30 and -one card for numbers 1-100. Using Best Start data, assess the student’s starting point and give them the appropriate card to move them along Aspect One of the Numeracy Continuum. Each card gives parents comprehensive instructions and activities to help their child practise the skills necessary to address the cluster markers for the level. Activities and instructions address counting forward and backwards, counting objects, numeral identification and subitising. It encourages students to see different representations of numbers such as the number line, 5/10 frame and concrete objects. Print out the card back to back. Learning intentions and content are on the front, parent instructions and activity suggestions are on the back. Provide parents with a resource pack containing a die, counters, number cards, number line, 5 or 10 frame and number chart. BLM are provided to make most aspects of this resource pack. Once a child masters the content, provide them with the next levelled card. This homework could be compulsory or optional for parents who are interested in supporting their child’s learning. The activities could also be incorporated into numeracy groups.

Simple texts that can be used when teaching and learning about mass, capacity, fractions and 3D objects in early years mathematics. Use texts to integrate literacy into mathematics or as an advanced organisier of the key ideas in each topic. Each repetitive text uses age appropriate high frequency words and mathematics vocabulary.